"The Electoral Connection, State Attorneys General, and the Dynamics of Incarceration Rates"
Jason S. Byers (jason.byers@uconn.edu) 
Laine P. Shay (Laine.Shay@tamucc.edu)     

July 15, 2025  

Files contained in this folder:  
(1) Byers_and_Shay_JPP.csv 
(2) Byers_and_Shay_Replication_Code.txt 
(3) Byers_and_Shay_Appendix_Replication_Code.txt 
(5) Byers_and_Shay_Codebook.pdf  

REPLICATION DATA ANALYSIS:

To reproduce Table 1 the article, (1) open Byers_and_Shay_Replication_Code.do, (2) load Byers_and_Shay_JPP into Stata , and run the lines from 18 to 23. 

To repoduce Figures 1-2,(1) open Byers_and_Shay_Replication_Code.do, (2) load Byers_and_Shay_JPP into Stata , and run the lines from 18 to 38. 

To reproduce Tables 2-5 , (1) open Byers_and_Shay_Replication_Code.do, (2) load Byers_and_Shay_JPP into Stata , and run the lines 19 and 39-58.   

SOFTWARE

We conducted the analysis for this article using Stata IC 15.
